I recently worked on a larger new web app. The product was in its early stages, so one of the first big tasks was to come up with a prototype for the UI design.

Redux, the poster child for JS fatigue. Reducers, transmorgers, monads, flirzoozers and mononoidadz.

Resizable containers empower different users to customize a UI to emphasise what they find most important. A basic implementation of this is a split view or split pane, allowing users to enlarge content that is more relevant to them. (more…)

We’ll do this by creating an app from scratch and trying to write tests first. A quick disclaimer of what I will not do in this post: Write the next test, rinse, repeat. Without evangelizing why TDD… (more…)

I’m currently working on a complex offline-first eventually-consistent scheduling application for a summer music program to replace a Mac app written in Objective C many years ago. The lessons I’ve… (more…)